Trial set Monday for suspect in ex-Saint Will Smith's death (Dec 4, 2016)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) One car rear-ends another on a Saturday night. People argue. It escalates. Ten or so gunshots later, one driver is dead and the other waits nervously to give his side of the story to police. Conflicts settled by gunfire are tragically common in New Orleans but there was nothing routine about this one: the dead man was retired football player Will Smith, a star on the 2006 Saints team that help lift the stricken city's spirits with a winning season after Hurricane Katrina,..>> view originalCarter: US, Partners Need to Stay in Iraq After ISIS Defeat
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. รข€” The American military, along with its international partners, will need to remain in Iraq even after the expected defeat of the ISIS group, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Saturday. Carter said the U.S. and its coalition partners must not stop after completing the current campaign to expel ISIS from Mosul. He said the militants are on a path to lasting defeat. "But there will still be much more to do after that to make sure that, once defeated, ISIL stays defeat..>> view originalBusiness Since Birth: Trump's Children and the Tangle That Awaits
The circumstances highlight the remarkable tangle awaiting the Trump family, its sprawling business empire and those who have interacted with the family at home and abroad — a web of complications that seems certain to persist even if Mr. Trump makes good on his promise to remove himself from his company’s business operations. Since his election, Mr. Trump has chafed at the suggestion that keeping his business in the family could create problems, despite several episodes during his transition t..>> view originalStanding Rock Pipeline Protesters, Ordered to Leave, Dig In
“I ain’t going nowhere,” Mr. Plenty Wolf said one night as he cradled a buffalo-hide drum and reflected on grievances that run deeper than groundwater among Native Americans here. “We’re getting tired of being pushed for 500 years. They’ve been taking, taking, taking, and enough’s enough.” The approaching deadline to leave the camps and the dwindling days of President Obama’s term create a feeling that any opportunity to stop the Dakota Access pipeline is fading. The fight has drawn thousands o..>> view originalGreen Party switches strategy in Pennsylvania recount
Hours after a Green Party-backed campaign dropped its case in state courts they announce a change to their strategy to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump, and said late Saturday night that it will seek help in the federal courts, rather than the state courts. The campaign announced that it would seek an emergency federal court order on Monday for a recount. "Make no mistake — the Stein campaign will continue to fight for a st..>> view originalPanel urges better cybersecurity to President-elect Trump
Posted: Dec. 3, 2016 8:00 am Updated: Dec. 3, 2016 8:14 am WASHINGTON (AP) — A presidential commission on Friday made 16 urgent recommendations to improve the nation's cybersecurity, including creating a nutritional-type label to help consumers shop wisely and appointing a new international ambassador on the subject — weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The release of the 100-page report follows the worst hacking of U.S. government systems in history and accusations by the O..>> view originalPence's power play
When Mike Pence made his first visit to Capitol Hill as Donald Trump’s running mate this summer, several Republican senators made a request: They wanted a Vice President Pence in the GOP lunch gathering every week to discuss critical political and policy issues. Three months later, Pence is expanding his reach beyond setting the agendas for Senate lunches. He is helping pick Trump’s Cabinet members, soothing conservatives’ anxieties and perhaps most importantly for Trump, turning into the heal..>> view originalImprisoned former CIA officer fights conviction over leak
RICHMOND, Va. – Once an employee of the powerful CIA, Jeffrey Sterling now sits behind bars at a federal prison in Colorado. He bides his time by reading and writing and working at the facility's recreational center. Nearly two years after Sterling was found guilty of leaking government secrets to a reporter, the 49-year-old maintains that he is innocent. Sterling is now pinning his hopes for an early release on a federal appeals court, which will soon consider whether to reverse his convictio..>> view originalRescue Workers Sift Through Charred Warehouse After Fire Kills at Least 9
By Saturday afternoon, a list of those missing, compiled by friends and family, had grown to about 35 people. Officials said that the nine bodies recovered were in areas accessible to rescue crews, and that they had not been able to search the rest of the smoldering, unsafe building for at least two dozen people still missing and feared to be dead inside. Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that excavators and a crane were being brought in to help in the recover..>> view original
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
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